Globally, the U.S. is at risk of declining economic competitiveness due to its continuing lower levels of educational attainment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When children start kindergarten, sizable gaps in science knowledge already exist between whites and minorities—as well as between ...

Moving her finger over the laptop trackpad, 6-year-old Lauren Meek drags and drops a block of code to build a set of instructions. She clicks the "run" button and watches as the character moves ...

Low-income and minority children score much lower on national 8th-grade science tests than their white and more advantaged peers, but those gaps already exist before kids start kindergarten.

F. Chris Curran has received funding from the AERA Grants Program with support from the National Science Foundation. The annual back-to-school season is filled with high hopes for making new friends, ...

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Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. First, research on science and engineering education has focused largely on middle and ...